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Session 2010-12
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Summary Agenda Tuesday 24 May 2011

Summary Agenda
11.30 am
Prayers.
Afterwards
Oral Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister, including at 11.50 am Topical Questions.
12.10 pm
Oral Questions to the Attorney General.
12.30 pm
Urgent Questions (if any); Ministerial Statements, including on Update on the design of the Green Investment Bank.
Afterwards
Autism (Quality Standards)—Motion for leave to introduce a Bill under the Ten minute rule (Mr Robert Buckland) (for up to 20 minutes).
 
Backbench Business (28th allotted day): (1) Eurozone financial assistance (Motion); (2) General Debate: matters to be raised before the forthcoming adjournment (may continue until 7.00 pm).
 
Draft Defamation Bill (Joint Committee) (Motion) (no debate after 7.00 pm).
 
Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills (Joint Committee) (Motion) (no debate after 7.00 pm).
 
European Union Documents (Motions) (without debate).
At the end of the sitting
Presentation of Public Petition (without debate).
 
Adjournment Debate: School places in Finchley (Mike Freer) (until 7.30 pm or for half an hour, whichever is later).

 
Sitting in Westminster Hall
 
General Debates:
9.30 am
Post Office Card Account (Sarah Newton).
11.00 am
Night flights at Heathrow (Mary Macleod).
The sitting will be suspended from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm.
2.30 pm
Treatment of Christians around the world (David Simpson).
4.00 pm
Tees Valley rail transport (Ian Swales).
4.30 pm
Land stability in the Ironbridge Gorge (David Wright) (until 5.00 pm).

MEMORANDUM
WHITSUN ADJOURNMENT 2011
       Members wishing to table questions in person may do so in the usual way in the Table Office until 7.30 pm or the rising of the House (whichever is earlier) on Tuesday 24 May. After that, they may table questions for oral or written answer electronically or by post, and questions for written answer received before 4.30 pm on Monday 6 June will be treated as if tabled on that day. Questions for written answer submitted after that time will be treated as if tabled on Tuesday 7 June.
TABLING ARRANGEMENTS FOR QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER
       Under Standing Order No. 22(6), the Speaker has made the following arrangements for tabling questions for oral answer when the House returns:
Last date of tabling*
Date for answer
Departments etc.
Tuesday 24 May
Tuesday 7 June
Health
Tuesday 24 May
Wednesday 8 June
International Development; Prime Minister
Tuesday 24 May
Thursday 9 June
Business, Innovation and Skills
Tuesday 7 June(First sitting day after the adjournment)
Monday 13 June
Work and Pensions
       * The shuffles will be held at 12.30 pm.
       The results of the shuffles on Tuesday 24 May will be available on Wednesday 25 May from the Vote Office and on the internet at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/question-book.
QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER ON A NAMED DAY
       The following date has been specified for the minimum notice for tabling named day written questions for answer after the adjournment:
Time for tabling
For answer at earliest on
7.30 pm or the rising of the House, whichever is the earlier, on Tuesday 24 May
Wednesday 8 June

 

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